Windoze to Linux printer sharing?

[Tony Arnold]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 18:30 -0400, amigian wrote:
> Being a newbie to Linux (and Ubuntu) i do not know if this can be done. I 
> have two computers networked together. One is running Windoze XP and, 
> obviously, the other Ubuntu. The printer is hooked up to the Ubuntu 
> machine that i wish to share with the Windoze system. Can this be done and 
> if so how?

Yes! 

You need to configure CUPS on the Linux system to listen for incoming
connections. Check out the cupsd.conf file in /etc/cups/. You need to
enable listening on port 631 and further down the file, you need to
allow access from the Windows IP address/network. Don't forget to
restart the cups system after editing the conf file.

You then need to configure the printer on the Windows system as an
internet printer with a url similar to: http://<linux system ip
address>:631/printers/<name of printer> where the stuff in <> is
replaced with the relevant values.

Hope this makes sense.

Now what I would like is the other way around, to be able to print from
Linux to a Windows box using cups!

Regards,
Tony.
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